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Online test for Class 8 Social Science

This test contains twenty-eight questions drawing from History, Geography and Civics as a blended whole rather than three separate domains - which reflects how the actual exam structures itself. Students who have only ever revised one topic in isolation risk being surprised by an exam that shifts between them. Every question explains its reasoning after you provide your answer. The final screen names which chapters should be reviewed.

  • 28 questions, marked instantly
  • Every answer comes with the reasoning
  • Ends by naming what to revise
  • Nothing stored, no account, no email

What this test covers

  • History: How, when and where
  • History: From trade to territory
  • History: Ruling the countryside
  • History: Tribals, dikus and the vision of a golden age
  • History: When people rebel - 1857 and after
  • History: Weavers, iron smelters and factory owners
  • History: Civilising the native, educating the nation
  • History: Women, caste and reform
  • History: The making of the national movement
  • Geography: Resources
  • Geography: Land, soil, water, natural vegetation and wildlife resources
  • Geography: Mineral and power resources
  • Geography: Agriculture
  • Geography: Industries
  • Geography: Human resources
  • Civics: The Indian Constitution
  • Civics: Understanding secularism
  • Civics: Why do we need a Parliament
  • Civics: Understanding laws
  • Civics: Judiciary
  • Civics: Understanding marginalisation
  • Civics: Public facilities
  • Civics: Law and social justice
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20 questions, marked as you go

Drawn fresh from a bank of 28, so another go is mostly different questions. Every one explains its method after you answer, and the last screen names the chapters to revise.

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Every question in this test

The whole paper, grouped by chapter, so you can see the level before anyone sits it. Three are shown below and the rest open up.

28 questions · 23 chapters

8 shown here - the rest are in the test and the PDF

  • History: How, when and where1
  • History: From trade to territory1
  • History: Ruling the countryside2
  • History: Tribals, dikus and the vision of a golden age1
  • History: When people rebel - 1857 and after1
  • History: Weavers, iron smelters and factory owners1
  • History: Civilising the native, educating the nation1
  • History: Women, caste and reform1
  • History: The making of the national movement1
  • Geography: Resources2
  • Geography: Land, soil, water, natural vegetation and wildlife resources1
  • Geography: Mineral and power resources1
  • Geography: Agriculture1
  • Geography: Industries1
  • Geography: Human resources1
  • Civics: The Indian Constitution4
  • Civics: Understanding secularism1
  • Civics: Why do we need a Parliament1
  • Civics: Understanding laws1
  • Civics: Judiciary1
  • Civics: Understanding marginalisation1
  • Civics: Public facilities1
  • Civics: Law and social justice1
  1. Question 1. Historians studying modern Indian history rely heavily on which of these sources?

    • Cave paintings
    • Oral folk songs only
    • Official British records and reports
    • Coins from the Gupta period
  2. Question 2. In which battle did the East India Company defeat Siraj-ud-Daulah and gain control of Bengal?

    • Battle of Haldighati
    • Battle of Panipat
    • Battle of Plassey
    • Battle of Buxar
  3. Question 3. The Permanent Settlement, which fixed land revenue permanently and created zamindars as revenue collectors, was introduced by

    • Lord Curzon
    • Lord Dalhousie
    • Lord Cornwallis
    • Warren Hastings
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  1. Question 4. Under the Permanent Settlement, if a zamindar failed to pay the fixed revenue on time, the British could

    • reduce the revenue automatically
    • give the zamindar extra land
    • forgive the debt entirely
    • auction off the zamindar's land
  2. Question 5. Tribal groups often used the word 'dikus' to describe

    • their farming tools
    • their own tribal chiefs
    • the forests they lived in
    • outsiders such as traders, moneylenders and British officials
  3. Question 6. The revolt of 1857 first broke out among sepoys stationed at

    • Lucknow
    • Delhi
    • Meerut
    • Kanpur
  4. Question 7. Indian handloom weavers suffered greatly in the nineteenth century mainly because of

    • competition from cheap machine-made cloth imported from Britain
    • a ban on weaving
    • new tribal laws
    • a shortage of cotton
  5. Question 8. Macaulay's Minute of 1835, which shaped British education policy in India, aimed mainly to

    • spread Sanskrit and Persian learning
    • translate Indian texts into English for scholars
    • create English-educated Indians to help run the administration
    • build more village schools for farmers

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Class 8 Social Science test - common questions

Is this Class 8 social science online test free?

The test is completely free and requires no registration of any kind. There is no email address needed, no account to create, no password to enter. The test operates directly in the browser, storing no information. Your score appears on the page only during your session and vanishes when you close the tab - this matches our published privacy policy rather than being something you need to accept on faith.

Which syllabus does it follow?

This test covers NCERT social science for Class 8 - History material from 'Our Pasts III', Geography content from 'Resources and Development' and Civics topics from 'Social and Political Life III' - all of which CBSE schools teach. Most state boards address History, Geography and Civics in a comparable framework and sequence, so the test remains useful for those students.

Is there a timer?

Timed mode is optional and disabled initially. Your first attempt should show what your child knows rather than how they perform under time pressure on an unfamiliar test, since a timer measures stress as much as memory. When turned on, timed mode gives roughly one minute per question, reflecting exam pace at this level.

Can my child take it more than once?

Your child can retake as often as wished. Questions come from a bank and both their sequence and the answer positions get reshuffled each attempt, so a second try cannot pass through remembering where the correct answer was. Retesting one week after the first gives far better information than retesting the same day.

How is this different from your Class 8 social science worksheets?

Worksheets drill one chapter deeply on paper with parent evaluation; our tests evaluate themselves. They meet different purposes: tests identify the gap in understanding, while worksheets help fill it. Families typically gain more value from ten minutes of testing than an hour spent practising a chapter that was never actually the weak area.

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